The Pentagon has removed Jennifer Santos, its point person for the Defense Production Act, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to Fox News."The Department can confirm that Ms. Jennifer Santos is moving from her current position as the Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy to the Department of the Navy,” Lt. Col. Mike Andrews…
The Trump administration is struggling to effectively counter Russian and Chinese naval and maritime moves in the Arctic, according to analysts and several lawmakers, who say Washington will need to commit more resources than initially thought if it seeks to outmaneuver Moscow and Beijing in the region over the decade to come. The Pentagon rolled…
The Pentagon is pushing back hard against claims by Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill who say the Defense Department has mishandled the coronavirus outbreak in the ranks and put concerns over military readiness ahead of the health of service members and their families. The global pandemic has posed a particular problem for the U.S. military,…
The Trump administration notified Congress this week that it will try to refill the money it took from Pentagon accounts to use to build the border wall by cutting European defense assistance. The move angered Democrats on Capitol Hill, who said President Trump is playing games with the Defense Department’s money, moving money to further…
A still of one of three videos released by the Pentagon on Monday, April 27, 2020 showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" captured by U.S. Navy pilots during training flights in 2004 and 2015. "The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,' the Pentagon said in a statement.U.S. Department of DefenseThe Department of Defense…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…